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Author : William Bedell Stanford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ambiguity in Greek Literature written by William Bedell Stanford and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Stanford
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ISBN 13 : 9780384574724
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ambiguity in Greek Literature written by William B. Stanford and published by . This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Vöhler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715848
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature written by Martin Vöhler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
Author : Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228442
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Ambiguity written by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. A History of Ambiguity remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German philosophy, and literary criticism, Anthony Ossa-Richardson explores the many ways in which readers and theorists posited, denied, conceptualised, and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts between antiquity and the twentieth century. This process took on a variety of interconnected forms, from the Renaissance delight in the ‘elegance’ of ambiguities in Horace, through the extraordinary Catholic claim that Scripture could contain multiple literal—and not just allegorical—senses, to the theory of dramatic irony developed in the nineteenth century, a theory intertwined with discoveries of the double meanings in Greek tragedy. Such narratives are not merely of antiquarian interest: rather, they provide an insight into the foundations of modern criticism, revealing deep resonances between acts of interpretation in disparate eras and contexts. A History of Ambiguity lays bare the long tradition of efforts to liberate language, and even a poet’s intention, from the strictures of a single meaning.
Author : Martin Vöhler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715813
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature written by Martin Vöhler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
Author : William Empson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200370
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seven Types of Ambiguity written by William Empson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.
Author : André Lardinois
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691004662
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Making Silence Speak written by André Lardinois and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Author : Th. C. W. Oudemans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004084179
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tragic Ambiguity written by Th. C. W. Oudemans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stelios Ramphos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King written by Stelios Ramphos and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword by Olympia Dukakis: Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King takes the reader on a journey through the play, concentrating on the force of the dramatic action and the poetic means by which Sophocles achieves his effects. In analyzing this quest, the book offers us fascinating insights into the nature of poetry, the function of translation, and the value of redemptive suffering.
Author : Zenon Culverhouse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179361122X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plato's Hippias Minor written by Zenon Culverhouse and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers accuse Socrates of advancing unfair, if not fallacious, arguments in Plato’s Hippias Minor more than in most other dialogues. In Hippias Minor, Socrates appears to defend the trickster Odysseus, and in the course of doing so he argues for outrageous claims: the honest person and the liar are no different, and the good person is one who does wrong voluntarily. In Plato’s Hippias Minor: The Play of Ambiguity, Zenon Culverhouse argues that Socrates’ questionable behavior is no coincidence in a dialogue about deception and that Socrates is examining what counts as deception and how it reflects one’s excellence. More broadly, the dialogue is about the relationship between the speaker and what is said, between agent and action. Thus, the dialogue marks an important contribution not only to Socrates’ thinking about virtue and voluntary action but also to Plato’s portrait of Socrates. For the latter, Culverhouse argues that the dialogue further defines the sometimes thin line between Socrates and his contemporaries, the sophists. Rather than exploiting ambiguity in key terms of the argument to trip up his opponent, Socrates playfully explores these ambiguities to illuminate Hippias’—and perhaps our own—serious commitments about human excellence.
